Improvement in bed-bottoms



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Letters Patent No. 109,852, dated December 6, 1870.

IM PROMEMENH' IN BED-BOTTQMS.

'The Schedule refer-:exito in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

A is a plain bar, one terminus of is held by a cavity in the end of the bed-frame, and supported` at a short distance from thence by means of a steel bar, B, so producing au elastic fulerum lever-bar.

. Taking three or more bars of the above description,

extending alternately from .the opposite ends ofthe hed-frame, theyloeing balanced by means cfa double rope, C, attached at a right angle tosaid bars across f forth.

the center of the bedstead, vintwining each ban-and so producing a balancing counter action, said arrangee ment or construction to bev attached either directly to t-he bedstead, or ou a portable frame-work.

Claim;

I clainl asmy invention- A bed-bottom, composed of the plain slats or bars A, l'

two "steel fulcrum bars B, and the rope C, thevslats or bars A extending alternately from the opposite ends of the bed-frame, so forming two opposing sets, the two steel bars B- producing the elastic or spring fnlcrum, one steel bar to each set of slats, all the slats to be united and balanced by means vof the rope C, substantially and for the 'purpose hereinbefore set Witnesses:

i NELs. ARVIDO,

LOUIS VALKMAR.

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